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The catalyst for the museum was the 1947 Roswell UFO incident, in which a rancher, W. W. "Mack" Brazel, discovered metal debris outside of Roswell, near a giant trench that spanned hundreds of feet. [4] The International UFO Museum and Research Center shares theories about the Roswell incident and other extraterrestrial life. [4]
It contains numerous references to Area 51 and Groom Lake, along with a map of the area. [9] Media reports stated that releasing the CIA history was the first governmental acknowledgement of Area 51's existence; [ 53 ] [ 54 ] [ 15 ] rather, it was the first official acknowledgement of specific activity at the site.
February 15, 1989 (400 block of Main St. Roswell: 3: Diamond A Ranch: August 29, 1988 (About 14 miles west of Roswell along U.S. Route 380, then 2 miles south on a private ranch road
Walker Air Force Base is a closed United States Air Force base located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Roswell, New Mexico. It was opened in 1941 as an Army Air Corps flying school and was active during World War II and the postwar era as Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF).
The UFO Museum, which opened in 1992, draws over 220,000 visitors each year, Jaramillo said. Roswell has been a hub for people fascinated by space and extraterrestrial phenomenon since the 1947 so ...
This list of museums in New Mexico is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Spring River channel overflowed causing what the National Weather Service in Albuquerque described as "extreme flooding" in downtown Roswell and throughout the southeastern New Mexico town of ...
By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [1] [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico ...